the material was marked with the highest levels of classification that exists, material that is meant to be held only in secure government facilities not at a private club where basically anyone can pay for membership and wander around. arguably, the agent s most alarming finding that we were able to see in this redacted version was that the boxes contained classified information that came from human intelligence sources meaning if the documents were mishandled, leaked or transmitted they could compromise the identity of american intelligence assets and the affidavit also lays out why doj had good reason not to believe or trust trump and his lawyers knowing that back in february of this year, after the archives notified congress that there was classified material and what they got back from mar-a-lago, trump put out a statement that very fact. investigators write this, quote, there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified national defense
Two im john roberts and washington. Aishah think of having me, john im Aishah Hasnie infra sandra smith say this is America Reports round two for secretary blinken. On capitol hill after he got heckled by protesters yesterday watch. Is a war criminal, he is a war criminal 40,000 people the blood of where theyve thousand palestinians is on his hands. John one called him the Butcher Of Gaza while republicans say hes parted over americas worst Foreign Policy disasters ever. Aishah Gillian Turner is live at the State Department with all the latest. Julian is he getting an easier time on the hill did a Question Mark so far, aishah, a little easier than yesterday. We have this hearing coming up now with the House Foreign Affairs committee that is likely to change that. Secretary blinken is up there as you mention for round two of these hearings, lawmakers are demanding answers about the Biden Administrations Foreign Policy he got an earful about House Appropriators and yesterday over in the
false statements that were made. i don t see if you re somebody like merrick garland who is a former judge, who thinks about precedent, about treating like defendants equally, i don t see how you fashgs void that conclusion in this case. and i want to understand on on for all the conversation with you, and your wife said i want to follow up with it quickly. how is it that one of the windows this we have from this affidavit is that donald trump knowingly took these things, knowingly kept these things and knowingly lied about what he had? extremely. for all of the people who say why didn t the ar kwiefs in the department of justice act faster and by the way, when you piece together the time line and this affidavit does give you more, the department acted quite
methods and ongoing criminal investigation, but what we do see reveals a wealth of new information that shows that the justice department did not take the extraordinary step of seeking a search warrant to search the home of the disgraced ex-president lightly, and that it was a last resort after months of back and forth between donald trump s lawyers and the fbi and the national archives. doj also making clear that donald trump keeping records that contain what is known as national defense information at mar-a-lago poses a national security risk to the united states. here is what the affidavit says about the records retrieved by the archives in january of this year which contain 184 classified documents. quote, fbi agents conducted a preliminary review of the 15 boxes provided to nara and identified documents with classification markings in 14 of those 15 boxes. according to the fbi, some of
president trump said he declassified the documents and did he just declassify them all. why, i declassified everything in the world. i m president, i can do it all. come on. i m not going to comment because i don t know the detail. i don t even want to know. let the justice department take care of that. that was president joe biden a little while ago essentially mocking one of donald trump s many excuses for why he had 184 classified documents, unsecured, at his mar-a-lago golf club after he left the white house. it s a rare comment from the president on an issue that the president has made a point of steering clear from. his whole team has, and letting the justice department do its work. his remarks follow a fiery rally and speech last night where president biden sought to energize all democrats, drawing a very sharp contrast between his party and his leadership and